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Vocab #3
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English
9th Grade
10/06/2011

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Grandiose
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More complicated than requred
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Jury
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A group of people in court made to decide the verdict of the court
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Purge
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To rid what is impure, clean
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Extenating
Definition
Less serious (The judge gave him a comparatively mild sentence due to extenuating circumstances)
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Capital
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A place that is special to some activity
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Congregate
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To assemble, to come together
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Assent
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To agree
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Via
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A route that passes through something (to fly to Japan via the North Pole)
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Aggrandizent
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Increasing in size or intensity
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Devious
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Indirect, without a define course
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Recapitualte
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To review by breif summary
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Gregarious
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Social
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Impediment
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Obstruction, hinderance, obsticle
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Abjure
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To give up under oath
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Tenuous
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Slender or thin in form
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Presentiment
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A feeling or impression that something is about to happen
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Viaduct
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A bridge for carring road(s) or railroad(s)
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Equinamity
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Mental or emotional stability
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Sacrilege
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Violation of anything sacred
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Grandiloquence
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Lofty speech, sometimes being bombast, or cocky
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Dissension
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Strong dissagrement or agrument
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Pusillanimous
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Lack of courage, cowardly
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